• Okay this blogging thing is not going very well for me.  My buddy Jake Bramante from Hike 734 insisits that blogging is a good thing.  I have to trust you Jake as you have never steered me wrong. Now it seems that is has been another number of months since I blogged and I am thinking about working on the fourth volume of the series.It is January in Montana and the winter doldrums have set in.  Here at home I usually wake to clouds and turn on the porch lights to lighten the night due to clouds.  However, this year we have been a bit spoiled with some treats of sunshine, just not enough at the right times of the week.  The sun shines when I am working.